Philosophy posts
- January 7, 2012
- 06:12 PM
- 590 views
The difference between population concepts and “population thinking”
by John S. Wilkins in Evolving Thoughts
The late Ernst Mayr is remembered for many things, but a number of his historical and philosophical claims are unravelling. The very clever and perspicacious Rutgers geneticist, Jody Hey, has published a paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology on … Continue reading →... Read more »
Jody Hey. (2011) Regarding the confusion between the population concept and Mayr’s “population thinking”. Quarterly Review of Biology, 86(4), 253-264. info:/
- January 6, 2012
- 08:00 AM
- 593 views
Questioning Permanence: Would You Get a QR Code Tattoo?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Are you inked? I’m not, though I’ve thought about it seriously and have a pretty good idea of what I would get and where I would put it—if I could work up the nerve to get in the chair. I’ll tell you one thing: It most certainly is not a QR code like Fred Bosch, who [...]
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Caplan, J. (1997) 'Speaking Scars': The Tattoo in Popular Practice and Medico-Legal Debate in Nineteenth-Century Europe. History Workshop Journal: HWJ, 107-42. PMID: 11619699
Dye, I. (1989) The tattoos of Early American Seafarers, 1796-1818. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 133(4), 520-554. info:/
Irwin, K. (2001) Legitimating the First Tattoo: Moral Passage through Informal Interaction. Symbolic Interaction, 24(1), 49-73. DOI: 10.1525/si.2001.24.1.49
Schildkrout, E. (2004) Inscribing the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33(1), 319-344. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143947
- January 5, 2012
- 07:30 PM
- 621 views
Huge personality differences between men and women
by United Academics in United Academics
Are you still looking for that special person that perfectly matches your personality? Stop searching. Men and woman really are living on different planets when it comes to their personalities, according to new research of the University of Turin and the Manchester Business School.... Read more »
Del Giudice M, Booth T, & Irwing P. (2012) The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality. . PLoS ONE. info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0029265
- January 4, 2012
- 09:39 PM
- 752 views
A Walkthrough To Find Credible Souces and Answers to the Controversies of Vaccines, Evolution, Holocaust, and Global Warming
by DJ Busby in Astronasty
Where do you get your facts?
Hopefully, a reliable source.
So what's an online reliable source, and how can a regular Joe get a hold of this information?
A very easy way to be confident is to make sure that you're reading from an .edu or .gov page. One of the easiest (and quickest) ways to find your topic is through the citations on Wikipedia. Some people doubt the validity of Wikipedia in fear of hecklers. The nature or self-maintaining issue of Wikipedia aside, the citation........ Read more »
Bonhoeffer J, & Heininger U. (2007) Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence. Current opinion in infectious diseases, 20(3), 237-46. PMID: 17471032
Demicheli V, Jefferson T, Rivetti A, & Price D. (2005) Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 16235361
Committee on Revising Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. (2008) Science, Evolution, and Creationism. The National Academies Press. info:/9780309105866
Boykoff, M., & Boykoff, J. (2004) Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press. Global Environmental Change, 14(2), 125-136. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2003.10.001
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- January 4, 2012
- 12:34 AM
- 644 views
Why men don't listen and women are great at maths
by Andrew Watt in A Hippo on Campus
Ask the average person on the street if men and women are wired differently and you'll more often than not get an affirmatory response. Not overly suprising given the knowledge that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Am I right? But dive a little deeper and chances are you'll find that the vast majority of people would be relying heavily on deeply ingrained stereotypes, such as the "mythically superior 'multitasking’ abilities" of women or men who just don't listen, rather than any s........ Read more »
Eliot, L. (2011) The Trouble with Sex Differences. Neuron, 72(6), 895-898. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.001
- January 2, 2012
- 02:07 AM
- 851 views
Principles for Patient Safety
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
Buffer Teaching patient safety starts in medical school. Hospitals can be weired chaotic places. It’s often a wonder everything keeps working as it should although failures do occur. Medical professionals come to realize that mistakes happen and they adapt their working procedures to those of the so called high reliability organizations such as aircrafts, airline [...]
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Prasanna, P., & Nagy, P. (2011) Learning From High-Reliability Organizations. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 8(10), 725-726. DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2011.06.020
- January 1, 2012
- 09:41 AM
- 686 views
Copyright vs Medicine: If this topic isn’t covered in your newspaper this weekend, get a new newspaper
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after thirty years of silence, authors of a standard clinical psychiatric bedside test have issued take down orders of new medical research.... Read more »
Newman, J., & Feldman, R. (2011) Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(26), 2447-2449. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110652
- December 22, 2011
- 05:20 AM
- 387 views
An Objective Measure of Consciousness...?
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Could a puff of air in the eye offer a way to evaluate whether someone is conscious or not?Yes it could, say Cambridge's Tristan Bekinschtein and colleagues in a new paper about Sea slugs, subliminal pictures, and vegetative state patients.It's all about classical conditioning of the kind made famous by Pavlov. This is learning caused by the pairing of two stimuli, one of them unpleasant. So if I were to ring a little bell before, say, pepper spraying you, and I did that repeatedly, you would pr........ Read more »
Bekinschtein TA, Peeters M, Shalom D, & Sigman M. (2011) Sea slugs, subliminal pictures, and vegetative state patients: boundaries of consciousness in classical conditioning. Frontiers in psychology, 337. PMID: 22164148
- December 9, 2011
- 09:35 AM
- 537 views
Some Ground Rules for a Theory of Psychology
by Andrew Wilson in Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists
Add psychology to the listA fairly common response to our theory post was 'here's my theory, which is designed to replace and fix all the others'. However, it's more a symptom of the problem I was discussing than a solution for everyone to have their own entirely separate theory which doesn't talk to any other work in the field (see above). One of my personal goals in science is to not be that guy. I want to see cognitive science become more integrated, not more fragmented. We have also been ask........ Read more »
Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998) The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7-19. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8284.00096
Runeson, S. (1977) On the possibility of "smart" perceptual mechanisms. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 18(1), 172-179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1977.tb00274.x
Turvey, M. (1992) Affordances and Prospective Control: An Outline of the Ontology. Ecological Psychology, 4(3), 173-187. DOI: 10.1207/s15326969eco0403_3
Turvey, M., Shaw, R., Reed, E., & Mace, W. (1981) Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981). Cognition, 9(3), 237-304. DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(81)90002-0
van Gelder, T. (1995) What might cognition be, if not computation?. The Journal of Philosophy, 92(7), 345-381. info:/
Warren, W. (1984) Perceiving affordances: Visual guidance of stair climbing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10(5), 683-703. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.10.5.683
- November 22, 2011
- 09:58 AM
- 525 views
What does determinism have in common with gods, the flying spaghetti monster and pink, invisible unicorns?
by Björn Brembs in bjoern.brembs.blog
I usually don't blog about physics. Actually, I don't think I ever have, which is not surprising given that I'm not a physicist. This unusual post was prompted by an ongoing series of encounters with people asking me how I can be so sure that the universe is indeterministic. I'm explicitly writing this as an interested layperson, even though I took elementary quantum mechanics as special subject in high school and was supervised during my PhD by Martin Heisenberg, the youngest son of Werner Heis........ Read more »
Wilson, C., Johansson, G., Pourkabirian, A., Simoen, M., Johansson, J., Duty, T., Nori, F., & Delsing, P. (2011) Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit. Nature, 479(7373), 376-379. DOI: 10.1038/nature10561
Brembs, B. (2010) Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1707), 930-939. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2325
- November 17, 2011
- 06:49 AM
- 870 views
Do you have the compassion gene? A stranger will know within 20 seconds
by United Academics in United Academics
In a new study, a group of scientists including researchers from UC Berkeley, have found that people who tested high for empathy shared the same DNA linked to promoting social interaction and love.... Read more »
Kogan A, Saslow LR, Impett EA, Oveis C, Keltner D, & Rodrigues Saturn S. (2011) Thin-slicing study of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene and the evaluation and expression of the prosocial disposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 22084107
- November 14, 2011
- 05:20 AM
- 784 views
Can you spot the fake brain computer interface?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A team of bogus developers are applying for crowd funding for a project that does not exist. Can you spot the flaws?... Read more »
Damian Cruse, Srivas Chennu, Camille Chatelle, Tristan A Bekinschtein, Davinia Fernández-Espejo, John D Pickard, Steven Laureys, Adrian M Owen. (2011) Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study. The Lancet. info:/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61224-5
Coan, J., & Allen, J. (2004) Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion. Biological Psychology, 67(1-2), 7-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.03.002
- November 12, 2011
- 01:47 PM
- 579 views
Haeckel’s Mystical Monism
by Cris Campbell in Genealogy of Religion
A place for everything and everything in its place. This is not just a mantra for those with obsessive tendencies. It also describes the drive that some have toward a system: a unified theory of everything.
Before the Enlightenment, there was no need for such a theory. God served this purpose and everything was explained by [...]... Read more »
Holt, Niles. (1971) Ernst Haeckel's Monistic Religion. Journal of the History of Ideas, 32(2), 265-280. DOI: 10.2307/2708280
- November 6, 2011
- 02:04 PM
- 487 views
The China Rule & Cult of Confucius
by Cris Campbell in Genealogy of Religion
China is big, old, and fascinating. Its importance in the larger scheme of things is such that there should be what I call “The China Rule.” This rule would apply as follows. If a scholar claims that history unfolds directionally or according to general rules, s/he must specifically test the claim using China as datum. [...]... Read more »
Wilson, T. (2002) Sacrifice and the Imperial Cult of Confucius. History of Religions, 41(3), 251. DOI: 10.1086/463684
- November 3, 2011
- 08:00 PM
- 363 views
Methods: Attributable Fractions
by Ryan in Epidemiology as a liberal art
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Greenland S, & Robins JM. (1988) Conceptual problems in the definition and interpretation of attributable fractions. American journal of epidemiology, 128(6), 1185-97. PMID: 3057878
- October 31, 2011
- 10:58 PM
- 770 views
Why Are We Afraid of Clowns?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Ed. Note: What better way to round out Halloween than by considering why it is that clowns can strike fear into our hearts when they’re supposed to be harmless? Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns. And I’ll admit that they make me nervous. I’m not totally crazy about hanging out with folks who think wearing [...]
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Alford, F., & Alford, R. (1981) A Holo-Cultural Study of Humor. Ethos, 9(2), 149-164. DOI: 10.1525/eth.1981.9.2.02a00030
Honigmann, J. (1977) The Masked Face. Ethos, 5(3), 263-280. DOI: 10.1525/eth.1977.5.3.02a00020
Levi-Strauss, Claude. (1961) The Many Faces of Man. World Theatre, 3-61. info:/
- October 31, 2011
- 04:18 PM
- 843 views
Our Modular Selves: Science and the Philosophy of Self
by Sam McNerney in Why We Reason
One of the most enduring themes in western thought is the idea of The Self. Who am “I” and what does it mean “to be,” many philosophers have asked over the centuries. Thought provoking questions indeed, but most discussions of The Self make the mistake of assuming that it is something. The reality is that [...]... Read more »
Güth, W., Schmittberger, R., & Schwarze, B. (1982) An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining. Journal of Economic Behavior , 3(4), 367-388. DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(82)90011-7
Kunz J. (2000) Social class difference in response to Christmas cards. Perceptual and motor skills, 90(2), 573-6. PMID: 10833755
Kenrick, D., & Sheets, V. (1993) Homicidal fantasies. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14(4), 231-246. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(93)90019-E
- October 27, 2011
- 05:23 PM
- 635 views
Your Homunculus Is A Liar
by Cris Campbell in Genealogy of Religion
The person who lives inside your head may seem rational and honest, but who is fooling who? If you are fortunate there is only one voice and if you are sober the voice should be sensible. Or so we would like to think. Two recent studies suggest otherwise. As it turns out, our homunculi are [...]... Read more »
von Hippel, W., & Trivers, R. (2011) The evolution and psychology of self-deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(01), 1-16. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X10001354
Sharot, T., Korn, C., & Dolan, R. (2011) How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality. Nature Neuroscience, 14(11), 1475-1479. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2949
- October 27, 2011
- 02:46 PM
- 912 views
Discussion Forum: How Dogma Hinders the Advancement of Basic Research
by Heather in Escaping Anergy: The Immunology Research Blog
Immunology is complicated. It’s like a giant puzzle without a box depicting how the picture is supposed to look. It becomes further complicated, because every few years a new puzzle piece drops into the pile. The thing is, sometimes it feels as Sometimes that new piece in the “missing link” that can unify part of the puzzle, and other times it can’t seem to fit into the existing puzzle. In research, the puzzle, in its entirety, is never complete, but people are workin........ Read more »
Mosser, D., & Edwards, J. (2008) Exploring the full spectrum of macrophage activation. Nature Reviews Immunology, 8(12), 958-969. DOI: 10.1038/nri2448
- October 26, 2011
- 08:00 AM
- 530 views
What Makes a Rabbit’s Foot Lucky?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Ed note: As Halloween rapidly approaches in the US, AiP will be exploring superstitions, beliefs, and the things that go bump in the night. [Evil laugh.] At some point, most of us have likely had a token that we believed would protect us or bring us luck. It could have been a baseball cap, a [...]
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Bill Ellis. (2002) Why Is a Lucky Rabbit's Foot Lucky? Body Parts as Fetishes. Journal of Folklore Research, 39(1), 51-84. info:/
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